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Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy »

Authors: Ariella Azoulay, Ruvik Danieli
ISBN-13: 9780262011822, ISBN-10: 0262011824
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ariella Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay teaches visual culture and contemporary philosophy at the Program for Culture and Interpretation, Bar Ilan University. She is the author of Once Upon A Time: Photography Following Walter Benjamin and Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, winner of the 2002 Infinity Award for Writing presented by the International Center for Photography for excellence in the field of photography (MIT Press, 2001).

Book Synopsis

An interdisciplinary exploration of the visual presence of death in contemporary culture.

	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction: On the Work of Death in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	2
Ch. 2	[Death's] Display Showcase: Walter Benjamin	10
Ch. 3	The [Aesthetic] Distance: Benjamin and Heidegger	34
Ch. 4	The [Spectator's] Place: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun	48
Ch. 5	The [Blind] Gesture: Hiroshima	76
Ch. 6	[Critical] Image	90
Ch. 7	The [Simulated] City: Jerusalem	118
Ch. 8	The Floodlit Arena [of Murder]: Yitzhak Rabin	130
Ch. 9	Save As Jerusalems	180
Ch. 10	The Picture [of the Battlefield]	218
Ch. 11	[Art] Museum	266
	References	288
	Index	296